Kiwi English
Learn Kiwi (New Zealand) English through our casual conversations! Good for Intermediate level and above.
- Update frequency
- every 59 days
- Average duration
- 25 minutes
- Episodes
- 14
- Years Active
- 2019 - 2021
Pick-up Lines & Dating
Hey guys, here are all the pick-up lines we mentioned in the episode:
- Hey my name is Microsoft, can I crash at your place tonight?
- Do you like raisins? How do you feel about a date?
- Are you Frenc…
Things we don't like about NZ
We talk about small inconveniences at the start of the episode and move onto more serious issues like racism and housing prices at the end. We still love our country and are grateful to live here, bu…
Doing a working holiday in your own country
Hear all about Nicki's cherry picking experience and most importantly, how to use a port-a-loo in this episode!
Summer jobs & Driving in NZ
Would you live in a tent for 7 weeks? Have you been in a car crash? How is NZ now with no Covid-19? We talk about all these topics!
Nicki's art Instagram: @nickijackson_art
Listen to the end to hear…
Life in NZ in 2020
Welcome back to our first episode in 8 months!
Nicki's art Instagram: @nickijackson_art
Be kind to yourself and others! Thanks for listening!
The Holiday Season in NZ
Happy New Year!!!
Long time no see.... sorry.
We had a nice, long break and are ready to make some more episodes for the Kiwi English podcast in 2020!
We talk about NZ's summer Christmas, New Years E…
Falling Inn Love
Conversation points:
- Inn = B n B (NZ word)
- She`s a beaut (Australian saying) = That`s a really nice (thing/person).
- Hard Yakka (Australian saying) = Hard work
- have a squizz = have a look, look…
Studying abroad - with Chase
Our special guest, Chase, talks about studying Japanese in Hiroshima, Hiroshima dialect, what he learnt, some advice for others and about tendonitis.
Conversation points:
`weeb` - a person who is rea…
Music + being half Japanese-Kiwi with Andrew!
We talk with Andrew about his band, playing live shows and growing up in NZ as mixed Kiwi and Japanese.
Andrew`s band: Temperamental https://www.facebook.com/Temperamentalnz/
Instagram: @andrew.tak…
5. Is New Zealand safe?
We talk about crime in NZ and how to be safe in NZ.
4. Our biggest mistakes
Nicki talks about her biggest mistake at work and Rangima talks about an embarrassing thing she did when she was a child.
Conversation points:
- dairy farm (2:11)
- milk the cows (3:09) take the cows…
3. Meeting people for the first time in NZ
Conversation points:
- How to greet in Maori culture (1:16)
- Hongi (2:00) pressing noses together in Maori culture
- How Nicki greets people (2:53)
- Hugging between friends (3:48)
- The first time …
2. K-pop dreaming + Flatting in NZ
Nicki talks about her strange K-pop dream and then we talk about `flatting` in New Zealand and what you should do to find a flat.
Conversation points:
-`Flat` a house that people share and live in to…
1. Kiwi English: Who, What, Where, When, Why
Welcome to our New Zealand (Kiwi) English podcast for English language learners. We introduce ourselves and talk about our own language learning experiences.
Main conversation points:
- Why we are d…